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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Overview

What is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a storage system that provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud with easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows to create and configure file systems quickly and easily.

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a storage system that provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud with easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows to create and configure file systems quickly and easily.

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Santosh V.
SV
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy integration and great performance file system tool."
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

What I like about Amazon EFS is that it's very easy to use and a very powerful file system that allows for seamless transfer of user experience from one application to another in a seamless way. It also allows for storage of user-upload images to be addressed over different servers and applications.

It's very scalable which allows it to be implemented from small userbase set-up through enterprise applications.

No limitation on storage and IOPS.

Optimize cost by infrequent access tier.

Elastic it enables growth when our data grows.

Overall it's a great tool and very suitable for work in the AWS ecosystem and easily integrates with other AWS tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

It's a great tool that we highly rely on storage on cloud and some of my disadvantages I have are like EFS could be made highly-available across regions.

No compatibility with Redhat 6. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
UN
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon EFS is an easy to set-up and no maintenance tool for read and write scalability."
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon EFS is a great tool as it handles the scalability of the filesystem so it enables multiple instances of EC2 can write and monitor the updates simultaneously. It's an easy to setup and has a great performance. It enables us to run multiple EC2 instances easily.

Seamless integrations with other tools.

It's fast and reliable and work very well for all the distributed and analytical systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

For me nothing I have come across that I dislike. No issues at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashan P.
DP
Quality Assurance Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"EFS is scalable and highly-available with no limit on storage size and IOPS."
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS is fast, secure and provides ample storage. Excellent response time no need to provision storage beforehand.

Easier to configure and set-up.

Reduce admin burden of storage and reduce over-all cost by using infrequent access tier.

Run multiple EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Expensive when compared to other traditional storage platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arjun P.
AP
Associate Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Seamless Scalability and Reliability"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is widely appreciated for its ease of use and implementation. Users find the platform user-friendly, with a straightforward setup process and seamless integration with Amazon EC2 instances. The service's scalability and fully managed nature make it a popular choice for applications requiring shared file storage, such as content management systems and development environments. While the pricing model may be perceived as complex, the number of features, including automatic scalability, replication, and integration with various AWS services, adds to its appeal. Customer support from AWS is generally robust, offering forums, documentation, and premium support plans, although some users may find the pricing for premium support relatively high. The frequency of use is high for applications with consistent resource demands, while occasional or low-resource-demand use cases might consider cost-effectiveness. Overall, Amazon EFS stands out for its simplicity, scalability, and integration capabilities within the AWS ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

While Amazon EFS is suitable for many use cases, it may not offer the same level of performance as some other storage solutions, especially for applications with extremely high throughput and low-latency requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajay S N.
AN
Junior Devops Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"EFS as a Common Storage"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS can be mounted with multiple Linux machines and can be accessed from multiples machines as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

EFS is available only for linux machines. But I believe there is some other service from AWS for windows, but I haven't used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HEMANT S.
HS
Senior Software Engineer I - DevOps
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best Cloud Service"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS is very vast first of all. AWS is greate Cloud service provider it has more than 1600 service available and most service that I use are the EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SNS, SES etc..

I am an AWS certified associate. I really love working on AWS platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Frequest changes in the UI causes lilttle difficulty in day to day tasks untill we get used to for the New UI. however there is always an option is available to switch back to old UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Most powerful and versatile of the big 3!"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It's simplicity of the console UI. It is very intuitive to navigate, and theit products are easy to configure on there directly. CLI and IaC tools can be used for repetative tasks, but the console is so easy to use for the quick-n-dirty things you need to get done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The naming convention of the services. When AWS first got started it was OK, because while there was a lot of services out of the gate, they were managable. Now, however, it has grown to having so many services and the naming conventions for them are not intuative to what they do. As a result, when new things pop up you have no idea what they are until you have done some research because you can't quickly tell what the intent is based on the name of the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhanu Prakash B.
BB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"my journey with Aws"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Aws is easy to use , user friendly interface , we can implement with many 3rd parties, it has good customer support, it has many number of features and i use aws everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

I dont have any specific dislikes about AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VJ
Cloud Consultant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best services And Easy to learn"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

I was a network engineer I worked on hardware servers in ISP but AWS is the best cost-efficient and money saver.

I learned alot from amazon web services and i think it is very good platform in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Be honestly I like each and every service of amazon i dont like subnet service on vpc.

if you delete bydefault subnets then u cant receive that again Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

parth p.
PP
Senior Cloud Engineer
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The best cloud service provider"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS has the most amazing set of services for our organisation to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The console is quite tricky to use for non technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

9 months

Average Discount

10%

Perceived Cost

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